The car ride was awkward. The radio hadn't been co-operating with their taste in music, each song showed how different these two were. When Jess heard 'Time of your Life' playing she began to sing along, Nick sat there disgusted, concentrating on the road and nothing more. Then when the song finished, a flash of relief went over his face, of which Jess noted.
"Not a fan of Patrick Swayze?"
Nicks concentration was broken, "Hmmm?"
"Dirty Dancing. Obviously not your movie of the month."
"Never seen it."
Jess sat there staring at his profile. Did he just say that? Ok now its time to judge she thought to herself.
"You're joking right? I've never met a person who hasn't seen it!"
"Really? What's it even about? A bunch of people dancing around in a dirty way?"
"Dancing; yes. Its just a great story. But it makes me hate my life."
"What? Why?"
"Because no guy would ever do the big move in real life!"
"Big move?" He asks, "What's the big move?"
"Watch it and find out." Jess says with a smile. "Oh this is me." She says pointing to a dark building. He slowed the car down to a complete stop. Jess went to open her door when she heard-
"Don't. Gentlemen always open the car door for a lady." Jess blushed. Lady? Nick rushed around to her door.
"Why thank you," She said with a slight laugh as she stepped out of the car, "But a tip for next time, don't call me a lady, it makes me feel like I'm a fifty year old grey haired woman with a cane."
Nick laughed, and then took in what she said. "Next time?"
"Yeah, if you want that, that is. But if not, I guess I'll just have find a new bar with a hot bartender to spill my life out to…" She said as she started to walk away from him. But as she brushed past him, he suddenly felt a wave of confidence run through him. He quickly turned around and grabbed her arm, pulling her back to him, and he pressed his lipped firmly on hers. Chest to chest they stood. Holy crap. She thought. Holy crap. But as she tried to deepen the kiss, he pulled away.
"You think I'm hot?" He said with a smirk on his face.
"Hmmm," was all Jess could make out, she was still reeling over the fact that she had just been kissed like never before. "Sorry what?" and then he kissed her again. Although he didn't reply with words, she just got the best reply to a question ever. She moaned in his mouth as he finally gave her the kiss she was wanting. Needing. She broke from his lips
"Do you wanna come up or-"
"What about your roommate? Will she mind?"
"She texted me earlier and told me not to wait up. We have the whole place to ourselves." Jess looked into him eyes, giving him a knowing look. She smiled at him, and he smiled back.
"I would, I really would but…" he trailed off, "Something's pulling me back."
"Is it," she began, dropping her hands from his arms, the spot they were during their recent kiss. She tried not to seem jealous, she wasn't allowed to be, not yet. "Is it because of your ex?" Nick looked at her wide-eyed in shock.
"What? No no no no no. Not at all. No. It's just, you just got out of a huge relationship that took up years of your life, and then when it was over, you told me every detail about it, me, a stranger, and now you're inviting me up to your apartment. I just-"
"No I get it," she cut him off, understanding exactly where he was coming from, "I do. You don't want me jumping ships too soon." And there is was, it was like she read his mind.
"Yeah." He replied with a soft smile. "But could I maybe…" he trailed off once more, he was in need of another confidence boost. "Could I, I mean you umm- woaahh." He was cut off by her hands reaching into his jean pocket, finding his cell phone and doing the exact thing he was hoping she would do.
"Here," she said, handing him back the phone, a smile forming at the corner of her lips, "call me?"
"I will." And with that, she began to disappear into the darkness, only the lights from the street lamps faintly displaying her soft curves. He leant back onto the front of the car watching her walk away. And then she stopped. He looked at the back of her, wondering what she was doing. She slowly turned her head and then the rest of her body until she was facing him once again. And then she took a step. Which was more than enough for him, he got off the hood of the car and took twice as many steps as her, meeting her half way.
She instantly wrapped her hands around him neck and his around her waist, pulling her to him as he crashed his lips on hers. Practically lifting her off the ground, he moaned against his mouth, and she traced her tongue on his lips, teasing him, testing him, which he obviously failed as he swiftly moved his tongue into her mouth.
It was crazy, in the course of one night, just 6 hours, he had found out more things about her than he learned about Caroline in the first month they were dating. He loved that it felt so easy. He felt like his life had just turned into one of Shakespeare's plays, without the death he added.
And then she broke the kiss, it took him a minute to process his surroundings, "Sorry did you say something?"
She giggled, "I said, are you sure you don't want to come up?"
"No." he replied instantaneously, which made her smile. "But I shouldn't. I call you."
"Promise?"
"Promise."
TBC
